St. Clare is the little plant of St. Francis, as she called herself. A blog to my call to become a Poor Clare Colettine. If St. Clare was a "little plant", I am a scraggly weed.

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Thursday, October 11, 2012

St. Joseph Cupertino

While we have recently passed St. Joseph Cupertino's feast day, the "flying friar" is one of my favorite Franciscan saints. Below is a wonderful homily from Fr. David Mary of the Franciscans Friars Minor from their mass.

Here is the full-length movie on the life of St. Joseph Cupertino, "The Reluctant Saint", while not 100% accurate, it is a delightful movie. Starring Maximillian Schell and Ricardo Montalban from 1962: